The police in Ogun State have arrested three suspected thieves who vandalised and carted away\u00a0 N1.8 million \u00a0telecommunications mast in the Ibafo area of the state.
\nThe suspects were said to be members of\u00a0a syndicate who specialised in vandalising telecommunications companies\u2019 masts in Ibafo in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun.
\nThe Police Public Relations Officer in the state,\u00a0 Abimbola Oyeyemi, said this in a statement yesterday.
\nOyeyemi said\u00a0 Adeola Oyesanya, Bashiru Mohammed and Musa Mohammed were arrested on Saturday with their loot.
\nAccording to him, the suspects were arrested following a report by a security guard attached to an MTN mast in papa Ibafo area that a group of thieves has invaded the site, vandalised and carted away 12 batteries valued at about 1.8 million naira.
\n\u201cOn receiving the report, the DPO Ibafo, SP\u00a0 Abiodun Ayinde, quickly mobilised his anti-robbery men and moved to the scene.
\n\u201cOn sighting the policemen, the suspects abandoned their loot and escaped to the nearby bush.
\n\u201cThe entire area was subsequently cordoned off by the policemen and the bush was properly combed as a result of which the first suspect Adeola Oyesanya was arrested.
\n\u201cHis arrest led to the arrest of the other two suspects who are the receivers of stolen goods.
\n\u201cOn interrogation,\u00a0 they all confessed to the commission of the crime and that they have been on the business for quite some time now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The police in Ogun State have arrested three suspected thieves who vandalised and carted away\u00a0 N1.8 million \u00a0telecommunications mast in the Ibafo area of the state. The suspects were said to be members of\u00a0a syndicate who specialised in vandalising telecommunications companies\u2019 masts in Ibafo in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun. The Police Public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/211146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}